Letters | CPR, ad language and Mitch McConnell

Assumption High School students Caroline Meiners, left, and Julia Reibel during CPR training last year.

CPR in school

About 2,000 children suffer sudden cardiac death each year. This drastic and unexpected event devastates family and friends. It is estimated that early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent one-fourth of pediatric sudden deaths. Early CPR is essential as the first few minutes after the event is a matter of life and death. Bystanders should be trained so that they can act quickly and effectively.

CPR training is included in Kentucky's Academic Core Standards for high school health education. A CPR educational program can be completed for about $1 per school student in as little as 30 minutes. So far, 12 states have passed laws requiring high school students to be CPR-trained. Recently, a 16-year-old old from Elizabethtown collapsed abruptly and died.

In our state, there is documentation of many saved lives by the immediate initiation of CPR. That is why we all should support House Bill 205 which has already passed the House. We urge our Senate leadership,as well as the Department of Education and Kentucky School Boards, to support this bill.

There is no doubt that by increasing the number of CPR-trained school students we will be able to save the lives of people of any age. It could be you or me.

JUAN VILLAFANE, M.D.

Pediatric Cardiologist

Louisville 40202

Ad language

The USA Today ad reads "BE YOUR OWN D*** TRAVEL GUIDE" in the Features section. Come on, C-J, is this language really appropriate in your paper, especially in a section that recognizes area youth?

Is this the language your own staff would want their children to read and use? If not, why endorse the word's usage by publishing it? Please drop the future use of the ad or have the ad's verbiage changed.

DON HELTON

Pewee Valley, Ky. 40056

Mitch demagoguery

Sen. Mitch McConnell recently was pictured at a political get-together holding aloft a firearm.

He apparently needs money and votes from gun owners.

This five-term senator should be shown passing out food at a food bank or gathering clothing for the poor. Perhaps he could voice his support for national health care.

It seems he is desperately trying to garner votes by singing to the right-wing choir.

Perhaps if he were to kill a tame deer or fire into a rabbit pen his stock would ascend.

This last piece of Mitch demagoguery takes the cake.

FRANK O'NAN

Henderson, Ky. 42420

Fraud alert!

Recently I received a "Fraud Alert" from Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign for re-election. This was another attack on his primary opponent Matt Bevin.

The joke is that McConnell is the real fraud, and he has been a colossal failure as our U.S. senator these past 30 years.

McConnell's approval rating in Kentucky is a paltry 32 percent. So the only way he can win is to make his opponent even less popular.

This is why McConnell has spent millions of dollars attacking Matt Bevin who even Rand Paul affirms is "a good, honest, Christian man."

Folks, we can make history. It is time to DITCH MITCH !!

JAMES KUNKEL

Warsaw, Ky. 41095

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Letters | CPR, ad language and Mitch McConnell

About 2,000 children suffer sudden cardiac death each year. This drastic and unexpected event devastates family and friends. It is estimated that early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent